Reciprocity of Mythology and Literature: A Retrospective study of the Genesis, Development and usages of Myth in Literature and vice versa
Abstract
The entire question of man‟s association with civilization has always engaged a position of dominance in the novel too. An enormous epic can be inscribed on a rock or written on a cloud or wind, but a few immense novels spotlight exclusively on man‟s relation with usual forces. The main concern of a novel is unavoidably with the incidental reality, the very web and texture of civilization as it exists or as it used to exist. Almost all the great European, English, and even American scholars are methodically engrossed by man‟s place in the social web and his efforts to refuse or be incorporated by it. Starting with Richardson‟s Pamela, for instance, and Fielding‟s Tom Jones, to Jane Austen‟s Pride and Prejudice. George Eliot‟s Middlemarch, Henry James‟s The Portrait of a Lady, Faulkner‟s Absalom and Saul Bellow‟s Herzog - all are associated with the particulars of personal and social associations.
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